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On the Wisdom of Limitation
(Part 2) In Conversation with the Chief of the Kajan Tribe
Oct 12 • 
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Death of an Elder: The Legacy of Jane Goodall
Monthly Newsletter | October 2025
Oct 5 • 
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September 2025

Guardians of the Sacred Forest
In Conversation with the Chief of the Kajang Tribe (part 1)
Sep 28 • 
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2
Dreaming awake as the kingdom sleeps
Some thoughts on the cost of creativity, lessons in ripening, and how stories can save our lives
Sep 21 • 
Gabriela Gutierrez
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4
Imagination as a Ritual Technology
What ancient sites teach us about imagination as a way of knowing
Sep 14 • 
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Singing over the bones of the Red Lady
On the 19,000-year-old female shaman of Northern Spain
Sep 7 • 
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2

August 2025

When women were the shamans in Neolithic Europe
A gift lecture for paid subscribers
Aug 31 • 
Gabriela Gutierrez
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2
On our essential cooperative nature
(Part 7) Encounters with the Deep Past
Aug 24 • 
Gabriela Gutierrez
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3
My loyalty is to Imagination
A letter in response to my recent video that went viral
Aug 10 • 
Gabriela Gutierrez
31
4
The Sacred Oak
Dodona and the Origins of the Oracular Tradition
Aug 3 • 
Gabriela Gutierrez
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7

July 2025

Revisioning the world of our early ancestors in Europe
(Part 6) Encounters with the Deep Past
Jul 27 • 
Gabriela Gutierrez
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What if prehistoric humans were never primitive?
Encounters with the Deep Past (Part 5)
Jul 20 • 
Gabriela Gutierrez
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